Easy is hard. That is, to make something easy for <i>users</i>, you have to work hard to build great tools for them. Helix appears to be punting on that.<p>Examples:<p>> Helix dynamically renders HTML via Markdown that is generated from the content source documents.<p>Markdown is a lossy format. Sometimes that's good (it'll strip unwanted Word formatting), but there are vital things that get lost too. (The easiest to grasp are the internationalisation issues, like mixing right-to-left and left-to-right scripts in the same paragraph, or multiple language spans.)<p>> To add metadata to your page, create a table like this at the end of the document<p>And how is this better than an actual tool, with actual field validation, helpful UX, etc? It's not: it's undiscoverable magic boxes with inexplicable (to the user) side-effects that oblige users to remember secret incantations (or sticky them to their screens) and hope everything works out all right.<p>This is the opposite of "intuitive and fast". Which anybody familiar with AEM won't be surprised by.